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title: Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 58 «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages

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The 15 questions of lesson 58 «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 86 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t1/) — Your mate says, "You can't do UKLO unless you already speak loads of languages." Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t2/) — Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." ("Dead" means very.) What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t3/) — A Ruvan cartoon says the first word always does the seeing, like in English. Fix it. — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t4/) — Kel: what number is "ro lan pa"? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t5/) — Nam: what does "ka-nalu" mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t6/) — Lumi: you have "taki" (my cat) and want "my cats". What do you say? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t7/) — Selk: which word would mean "mountain water", water from a mountain? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t8/) — Gran from the Black Country: "It's bostin' how yow cracked it, bab." ("Bostin'" means great; "bab" is a fond word for a child.) Tano: how do you say "I don't like"? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t9/) — Ilo: what does "seriko" mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t10/) — Mia's rule for Pirr is "lo means big". Which example proves her wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t11/) — Kel: Josh says 20 is "lan mu". Check against the data. How do you really say 20? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/e1/) — Identify the principle stated to govern UKLO puzzles concerning prior knowledge of the language. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/e2/) — It is given that, in the language Tolo, "kapa" denotes "house" and "kapakapa" denotes "houses". Determine the plural of "sela", denoting "tree". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/e3/) — Ascertain the value of the Kel numeral "mu lan ro", given that a numeral preceding "lan" multiplies it and one following "lan" is added to it. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the data concerning the meaning of the Vor word "selral". — right ✓ · exam

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